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You come across a back road with a grand name. What’s the story behind it? Where else did it used to go? @nfgusedautoparts shows how to find out more about something the Internet doesn’t know much about yet.
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A postcard may not look like an important historical document.
But this view of the Savannah Airport captures details that researchers love: terminal design, airline operations, & even how airports presented themselves to the traveling public.
As the Digital Transportation Archive passes 40,000 items, it's a reminder that history isn't preserved only in official reports. Sometimes it's preserved on a postcard mailed home
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Clements Airport, US 23 Bay City, MI Postcard
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"Public transportation and propaganda: Mobility, modernity, and ideology in Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe's employee periodical Die Fahrt (1929–1945)", by Mikael Olsson Berggren.
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"From empire to republic: Port infrastructure and urban development in Istanbul", by Sibel Gürses Söğüt.
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"Hidden vital players in supply chain – Freight forwarders from nineteenth century to date in Serbia", by Đurđica Stojanović and Marko Veličković.
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"Crazy train: Sub-urbanisation, geographic polarisation and high-speed rail in US politics", by Stephen Martin and John Bowen.
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Scale and Spectacle: Industrial Heritage as Portrait Stage
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1960 Yakima Air Terminal Postcard
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West Coast F-27s
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1978. Southwind by Fleetwood Mobile Home
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"“My only address is this ship”: Refugee seamen and the work of UNHCR, 1950s–1960s", by Peter Gatrell.
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"Le Ferrovie d’Italia, 1861–2025. An Exhibition in Rome", by Andrea Giuntini and Stefano Maggi.
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Now online the latest issue of the Journal of Transport History (vol. 46, no. 3)
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"The (de)regulation of passenger air transport in post-war Germany and its impact on airlines, routes and airfares, 1945 to 2019", by Mark Spoerer and Jana Vinga Martins
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"Steamers, refugees, and empires: The maritime displacement of Circassians in the Eastern Mediterranean", by Matteo Barbano.
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"A well-tracked path? Assessing the factors behind the expansion of Spain's nineteenth-century railway network", by Guillermo Esteban-Oliver, Víctor Sanchís-Maldonado and Rafael Barquín Gil.
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"Expometro: Behind the Scenes of the Mexico City Metro", by Luis David Berrones-Sanz.
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"The ‘bad’ Black driver: Respectability, criminality and cars in Washington, D.C., 1910s–1930s", by Sandra R. Heard.
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"The crisis of the secondary railways: The deadwood policy in Italian transport after World War II (1945–1960)", by Leandro Stacchini.
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"Between Thinking About Infrastructure and Making it Happen: The History and Future of the Grand Paris Express Metro, France", by Etienne Faugier.
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"(De)valued railway heritage – The case of Barreiro, Portugal", by Breno Borges.
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"Book Review: The Power and Pains of Polisemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15th-16th Centuries) by Gijs Dreijer", by Flàvio Miranda.
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🚦 Milestone Reached: 30,000+ Items in the Digital Transportation Archive! 🚦
Proud to share the archive has surpassed 30,000 items—preserving the history and evolution of U.S. transportation across rail, road, air, and maritime.
Explore historical docs, photos, tech reports & more in one open-access platform.
Thanks to all who've supported this journey!
#TransportationHistory @internetarchive #Transportation #DigitalAssetManagement #Libraries #Publictransportation
A new Editorial has been published in JTH!
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A new Editorial from our Editor-in-Chief Hugo Silveira Pereira has been published in JTH!
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"Spatial impacts of train ferries and fixed links in Denmark", by Richard D. Knowles.
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"From hot-air balloon to airship: An inflated adventure, Abbaye des Prémontrés, from 22 March 2025 to 06 July 2025", by Etienne Faugier.
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"Sailing sGraven Stroom: The appropriation of nautical space in fifteenth-century Flanders", by Kristiaan Dillen.
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"At the wheel of the republic: Driving through Portugal's history", by Elsa Santos Alípio.
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"Book Review: The Lost Termini of Berlin: A Biography of the Railway Stations That Shaped the German Capital by Ilja Nieuwland", by Breno Borges.
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